There are going to be some revolutions in AI in coming years, but I don't think they will come from IBM (or google or msft or any other similarly established co

There are going to be some revolutions in AI in coming years, but I don't think they will come from IBM (or google or msft or any other similarly established company) In the history of major technological advances, when has a big established player gotten it right? IBM invented the relational database, but Oracle (a tiny startup at the time) still ate their lunch for years. Why? Because IBM had already invested too much in non-relational databases and would have been cannibalizing their own business. Watch the exact same thing happen to Watson, the software powering Google's self driving cars, whatever Kurzweil is working on, etc. Not to mention, many of the current AI luminaries heading research at these companies are near retirement age--not to be ageist, but Einstein did not develop the theory of relativity near retirement, he did it when he was 26. Why would the biggest advances in AI be different? The company that really gets AI right--the company that can call itself "the AI company" like google can call itself "the search company" and facebook can call itself "the social company"--you probably haven't heard of it yet.